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Hoping it is not the invasive frog. Thanks for all opinions.

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  • 7 years ago

    Looks like one to me. You can usually tell by the huge, bulging eyes. When they get older, they have rough, bumpy skin. I had none last year, but I had toads, so maybe they ran them off. This year, with all the rain, they were breeding in a bucket I had out there with cuttings in it, and I didn't notice for a good while. Now they serenade me with their horrid, abrasive calls every night. I need to try to find them and get rid of them, but they do keep down the insects.

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Yes, that rascal is a CTF for sure. The gray skin, the round, bulging eyes and the large webbed feet with a huge round toe.

    I battled them here for five 5 years but haven't seen one in the last 2 yrs.. Probably moved on to a more friendly area ! :o)

  • 7 years ago

    FWIW, a local herpetologist informed me that the Cuban tree frogs aren't really any worse than other tree frogs, since ALL frogs will eat each other, given the chance.

  • 7 years ago

    FWIW, when I moved here in 2004, I couldn't help but notice the occasional native green tree frog harmlessly hopping around. Never a bother, I was happy to let them be as I realized this was their native habitat long before I came along. Then it all suddenly changed violently around 2012, - that's when these glutinous monsters, the CTF's, appeared suddenly. At the same time, the smaller, friendly native green tree frogs disappeared. They disappeared because the huge, vile, ugly CTF's were eating them. I wish I had a $5 bill for every time I saw a CTF in the process of swallowing whole one of the little green guys. It was obnoxious to anyone who saw it, the green frog's head well into the mouth of the much larger CTF's mouth, with the green guy's legs still twitching frantically. They may have but I never saw a green tree frog swallow another frog. One big CTF was photographed after he swallowed an outdoor Christmas light,..his big ugly body lit up a bright red.

    The population of CTF's exploded drastically while I never saw any more of the green tree frogs. I recall one GW'er telling of discovering a huge CTF swimming around in her toilet bowl. Eventually they were everywhere. My worst confrontation with one of the huge ( too large to hold in one hand ) greasy gluttons was early one morning when I looked in close at one of my large mango leaves that was quivering a bit, only to be shocked when one of the big ugly CTF's sprung off the leaf and splattered on my chest. I looked down right into those big round eyes while he hung on tenasciously,..yeah, got a good look at a CTF that time,...it also confirmed to me that my heart was in good shape ! :o)

    The CTF's home territory is Cuba, not here. Was so glad to notice them disappearing after I fought them diligently for about 5 years. All my neighbors felt the same,..GOOD RIDDANCE !

  • 7 years ago

    Joe, the native green frogs and lizards have learned now to hide high up in the tops of trees, where the bigger cuban frogs don't like to go. They're still there, we just can't see them. I did see a green lizard this year, and posted a pic here, but the last native frog I saw was years ago.